The Turing Test The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback]

This book gives the most comprehensive, in depth and contemporary assessment of this classic topic in artificial intelligence. It is the first to elaborate in such detail the numerous conflicting points of view on many aspects of this multifaceted, controversial subject. It offers new insights into Turing's own interpretation and is essential reading for research on the Turing test and for teaching undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, and cognitive science.

In 1950 Alan Turing (1912-1954) published his famous article, Computing Machinery and Intelligence in the journal Mind. This article is arguably the most influential and widely read article in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Indeed, most of the debate in the philosophy of artificial intelligence over the last fifty years concerns issues that were raised and discussed by Turing. Turing's genius was not only in developing the theory of computability but also in understanding the impact, both practical and philosophical, that computing machinery would have. Turing believed that computers, if properly designed and educated, could exhibit intelligent behavior, even behavior that would be indistinguishable from human intelligent behavior. His vision of the possibility of machine intelligence has been highly inspiring and extremely controversial. In this classic article Turing presented his well known imitation game and predicted that about the year 2000 an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning in the imitation game. Based on the results of the Loebner 2000 contest and the accomplishments in the field of AI, as impressive as they are, Turing's prediction remains unfulfilled.Origins of the Articles. Preface.1: History. The Turing Test; B. J. Copeland. Turing Test: 50 Years Later; A.P. Saygin, I. Cicekli, V. Akman.2: Interpretation. Turing's Two Tests for IntelligelSŠ